.. _controlcenter_userguide: Control Center User Interface ============================= To begin using |c3|, open your web browser to the host and port where |c3-short| is running. For example, if you are running the software on a host called ``controlcenter`` and using the default port (9021), you would open the URL ``http://controlcenter:9021``. For details on how to change the port used by |c3-short|, see :ref:`controlcenter_configuration`. When you first open |c3-short|, you will see a set of charts that are showing you how your pipelines are running, and a menu allowing you to choose between different functions of |c3-short|. .. _overview: .. figure:: images/c3overview.png :scale: 50% :align: center |c3| user interface The |c3| user interface supports three main modes. The first which you can see in the above image is Stream Monitoring mode. See :ref:`controlcenter_userguide_monitoring` for more information on using Stream Monitoring. Additionally, you can navigate between the other modes using the left hand sidebar. See :ref:`controlcenter_userguide_connect` for more information about using Kafka Connect configuration and :ref:`controlcenter_userguide_alerts` to learn more about creating triggers and actions. Contents: .. toctree:: systemhealth monitoring connect alerts clusters topics